The Sanjoanense Chronicle
Squad14 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Gabriel Souza
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Jan Montes
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Door shut on Rodrigo Moura
Sanjoanense asked and Chaves said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Lucas in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sanjoanense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Sep 2026
David Mendes steps up from the Sanjoanense academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Mendes has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Match12 Sep 2026
Sanjoanense find a way past São João de Ver
São João de Ver made Sanjoanense work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
One of those days for Guilherme Guedes
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market14 Sep 2026
Sanjoanense and Tiago Ribeiro are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
17 new faces, and Sanjoanense are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Marco Ribeiro
- The dugout Nuno Miranda: “That is the standard”
- The dugout Tomás Rocha gets it from the manager